Finland Begins Job of Storing Waste in Underground Tunnels

摘要

Finland may have finally solved its radioactive waste problem by burying the stuff deep underground on an island to prevent political backlash. Finland's two major nuclear-power companies started digging a massive tunnel system capable of housing 6,500 tons of spent uranium for the next 100,000 years. The system is being constructed 100 stories underground and could be finished as soon as 2020.